My Expertise
Urban microclimates; urban heat mitigation; climate-sensitive design; sustainable development
Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Architecture, Architectural design, Architectural engineeringBiography
Lecturer in the School of Built Environment, Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture, involved in research and teaching. PhD in architecture and urban microclimates.
My Grants
Grant activity includes:
- 2023 BE Research Acceleration Fellowship
- 2022 ADA Seed Funding Grant award for competitive ARC Linkage grant development
- CRC Low Carbon Living: Guide to urban cooling strategies (UNSW RG162627, 2016)
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Lecturer in the School of Built Environment, Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture, involved in research and teaching. PhD in architecture and urban microclimates.
My Grants
Grant activity includes:
- 2023 BE Research Acceleration Fellowship
- 2022 ADA Seed Funding Grant award for competitive ARC Linkage grant development
- CRC Low Carbon Living: Guide to urban cooling strategies (UNSW RG162627, 2016)
- internal infrastructure (equipment) grant (UNSW Faculty of BE, 2015)
My Qualifications
- PhD (UNSW), Master of Sustainability (USyd), BArch (WITS), BAS (WITS), BSc (Eng)(UCT)
My Research Activities
PhD in architecture and urban microclimate research with a focus on the effects of facade design on facade surface temperature and outdoor microclimate. Interest in transdisciplinarity and knowledge transfer between science and design. Current research on pedestrian outdoor thermal comfort, the effects of facade design on outdoor microclimate and the application of thermal judgement in architectural design.
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Urban microclimates. Spatial and non-spatial (OLS) statistics. Urban micrometeorological observational studies. Outdoor thermal comfort. Sustainability and the built environment. Transdisciplinarity
Currently supervising
K. Daniel Yu (2022 commencement): "Computationally assessing, optimising and designing-out heat for the urban environment". Joint supervisory role.
Yuda Wibawa (2022 commencement): "Effects of building shading on pedestrian outdoor thermal comfort". Secondary supervisory role.
My Engagement
2024
BE Postgraduate Research Coordinator (acting)
BE School member, ADA SDG Working Group.
Lead, 2024 Public Lecture Series, Architecture Program.
2018 - 2023
Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), member of Resilience Expert Reference Panel (ERP).
2019
Panel member, Sustainable Suburbs: Designing Thermal Comfort, NSW Museum of Applied Art and Science (MAAS) event, 10 March 2019.
2018
ABC New Radio, Western Sydney’s urban heat island, podcast and web article, 1 March 2018. http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/the-signal/why-are-australian-cities-getting-so-hot/9494774
2017
Heat Mitigation project, Darwin, Northern Territory: Heat mitigation program: Darwin, Northern Territory (apo.org.au)
Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 10th and Saturday 11th February 2017, on-line and print article, on microclimate, thermal comfort and urban heat. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/sydney-weather-how-urbanisation-creates-hot-microclimates-in-our-suburbs-20170209-gu9b02.html
2016 and earlier
The Conversation, 21 April 2016, “Building cool cities for a cool future”, on microclimate and urban heat mitigation. Co-author. https://theconversation.com/building-cool-cities-for-a-hot-future-57489
Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 20th and Saturday 21st November 2015, video and print article, on microclimate, thermal comfort and urban heat. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/blowing-hot-or-cool-depends-on-where-youre-at-says-urban-microclimate-expert-20151120-gl3xa0.html
My Teaching
2023/4 education roles:
- ARCH1361 - Architecture and Building Environment 2: course co-convenor and lecturer (thermal comfort)
- ARCH7112 - Integrated Design Studio 1 (MArch, first year, term 2): course design, convenor and studio master
- ARCH7113 - Integrated Design Studio 2 (MArch, first year, term 3): course design, convenor and studio master
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ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7625-067X